Learning Development Group

The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing have constituted a sub-group, the Learning Development Working Group (LDG).

The aims of the LDG are:

To promote the development of learning within computing departments.

To provide a focus for addressing disciplinary-focussed teaching and learning issues for the CPHC community

To identify existing and/or potential actions inside and outside of the CPHC community relevant to these issues.

To facilitate sharing practice across the CPHC community

The Chair of the LDG is elected from the main CPHC Committee. There is no fixed membership for the LDG. Rather the group undertakes one or two activities a year (in line with the LDG aims) for which working groups are individually convened.

Chair: TBC

LDG Working Groups …

WG5 – Promoting Careers in Computing Education

Remit: In response to Royal Society Report recommendation “higher education providers need to promote careers in computing education to a wide range of students”. This working group seek to identify and share good practice.

Remit: To gather, analyse and present employability practices in Computing Departments in the UK. The project both details the actual practices that departments engage in with regard to employability and also places them in a comparative context.

The project had two parts: a series of workshops and a report.

Workshops for sharing practices between participating institutions.

Report containing a series of case-studies, exemplifying employability practice “on the ground” gathered from a cross-section of institution types, missions and geographic locations.

Remit: The LDG is working to devise a subject-based survey of student engagement, drawing on the US National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the Australian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE). This will be piloted in 2013 and offered across the sector in 2014.